single stone and boasts elaborate rosette grating. Decoration and icons Saint George's Church has exterior stone relief decoration, another trademark feature of the Slavine School. The bays of the two gates are decorated with various ornaments, floral and solar rosettes. The west gate decoration includes a stylized depiction of the tree of life and an archaic image of two birds, one standing atop the other and pecking it, which is a medieval symbol of the fight between good and evil. Architect Nikolay Tuleshkov finds the appearance of such archaic imagery in the exterior decoration "puzzling". The iconostasis was painted by Petar Mitov, an artist from Samokov, in 1874. Mitov also did one of the icons ("Synaxis of the Archangel Michael") in the church in 1875, as well as the crucifix behind the altar in 1874. Gallery See also Lopushna Monastery Vernacular adaptations of Gothic Revival References Sources Churches completed in 1873 19th-century churches in Bulgaria Churches in Bulgaria Buildings and structures in Montana Province Gothic Revival church buildings in Bulgaria